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Artificial Respiration ' ' which is gener- 

 ally used throughout the world for re- 

 suscitating persons seemingly drowned. 



The East of Today and Tomorrow. By 

 Bishop Henry C. Potter. New York : 

 The Century Co. 1902. $1.00 net. 

 In this little volume Bishop Potter 

 presents some of his impressions of the 

 Far East, which he visited after the 

 Boxer uprising had been crushed, He 

 believes that China is at last awakening 

 from her torpor, and, recognizing her 

 deficiencies, is reaching out to Japan for 

 help and guidance in correcting them. 

 Bishop Potter's broad and humane view 

 of the Chinaman is the best feature of a 

 book which in other respects contains 

 very little that is new. The Chinaman 

 speaks extravagantly ; the westerner 

 speaks directly. Because the westerner 

 does not find the words of the China- 

 man fulfilled literally is no reason, says 

 Bishop Potter, for calling all Chinamen 

 liars. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution 

 for the year ending June 30, 1901. 

 Illustrated. Pp. 782. Washington: 

 Government Printing Office. 1902. 

 The first part of this annual includes 

 the proceedings of the Board of Regents, 

 the report of the Executive Committee 

 of the Board, and the administrative re- 

 ports of the Secretary and of the heads 

 of the scientific bureaus under the Smith- 

 sonian. The great bulk of the volume, 

 practically four-fifths, is devoted to the 

 general appendix, in which are pre- 

 sented a series of popularly written 

 articles summarizing scientific progress 

 in various lines during the year. Among 

 the articles of a geographic interest may 

 be mentioned: " Forest Destruction," 

 by Gifford Pinchot and C. Hart Mer- 

 riam, who emphasize the almost certain 

 annihilation of the fauna and flora 

 which follows the disappearance of the 

 forest ; ' ' The Abbott Collection from 

 the Andaman Islands," by Lieut W. 

 E. Safford, an interesting description of 



an island people who from earliest times 

 have been considered one of the most 

 savage races in existence and whom Dr 

 Abbott declared the ' ' very blackest 

 people I have ever seen ; " " Irrigation, ' ' 

 by F. H. Newell; "A Fire Walk Cere- 

 mony in Tahiti," by S. P. Langley 

 (portions of this paper appeared in the 

 National Geographic Magazine of 

 December, 1901); " The Wanderings of 

 the Water Buffalo;" " The Dinosaurs 

 or Terrible Lizards," by F. A. Lucas, 

 and " Bogoslof Volcanoes," by C. Hart 

 Merriam. Some of the papers are re- 

 prints, while others were written spe- 

 cially for the report. 



Annals of Switzerland. By Julia M. 



Colton. Illustrated. Pp. 301. New 



York: A. S. Barnes & Co. 1897. 



Republished 1902. 



The author aims to present a ' ' brief 

 consecutive narrative of the struggles, 

 progress, and attainments of a race of 

 freemen." Miss Colton pays proper 

 deference to the traditions which "be- 

 long as truly to the land as do its gla- 

 ciers and avalanches," and which in the 

 telling have stirred and ennobled the 

 ambitions of generations on generations 

 of the people. 



Forestry in Minnesota. By Samuel B. 

 Green. Illustrated. Pp.401. Pub- 

 lished by the Geological and Natural 

 History Survey of Minnesota. 1902. 

 37c. postpaid. 



This volume is a second and enlarged 

 edition of an admirable work first pub- 

 lished in 1898. It has been used with 

 success as a text-book in many agricul- 

 tural colleges and normal schools in the 

 United States. The first half of the book 

 Dr Green devotes to ' ' Elementary For- 

 estry," including chapters on "Tree 

 Planting," " Nursery Practice," "For- 

 est Protection," " Wood and its Uses," 

 and ' ' Forest Economics. ' ' The second 

 half is a description of the ' ' Trees of 

 Minnesota," concluding with a list of 

 the forest trees of the United States. 



